Opeyemi Adelere
The Federal Government in collaboration with the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has set up food distribution centres in Lagos State.
The special Assistant to the President on NHGSFP, Mrs Titilayo Adeyemi-Doro, disclosed this during a meeting with Lagos SUBEB Chairman, Wahab Alawiye-King, in Lagos .
According to her, the distribution centres were put in place to ensure that primary school pupils keep benefitting from the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) despite school closures. She added that that parents of Primary 1-3 pupils both in schools already benefitting from the feeding programme and others would get vouchers that they would present at the centres to get the food. Each family of the beneficiaries are to get items, which include, 5kg rice, 5kg beans, 500ML of vegetable oil, 750ml of palm oil, 500mg of salt and half crate of egg with tomato paste.
Earlier, Wahab Alawiye-King stressed the need for the items to reach intended families captured under the programme. “We have adopted the protocols and modalities that would be used in distributing the palliatives, that is why we are here today to ensure that we get it right so that the stakeholders at the event can go back to their respective domain and seek the buy-in of the larger public,” he said.
He further urged leaders of School-Based Management Committees (SBMC) and Education Secretaries to own the project and ensure its success.
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Dr. Joseph Ogunmola, the Baale of Marine Beach and Central Chairman of Apapa and Apapa-Iganmu LCDA SBMC, who spoke on behalf of the SBMC, assured both the federal and state governments of necessary support to make the programme succeed.
He said, “We would work assiduously to ensure the programne succeeds as Schools-Based Management Committees and Parent Forum in conjunction with other relevant stakeholders. I urge parents to cooperate with the officials that would be coming to distribute the palliatives so that the intention would not be jeopardised.”
The Chairman of the Conference of Education Secretaries in Lagos State, Comrade Amodu Hakeem Abolore, said financially incapacitated parents would be greatly assisted in feeding their children amidst the closure.
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